Transferring or Dipping Milk: Delivery Containers; Cooling; Quarantined Residences

PURPOSE: This rule provides regulations pertaining to transferring or dipping of milk, delivery containers, cooling, and quarantined residences. (1) Except as permitted in this rule, no milk producer/distributor shall transfer milk or milk products from one (1) container to another on the street, or in any vehicle or store, or in any place except a bottling or milkroom especially used for that purpose. The sale of dip milk is prohibited. (2) Milk and cream sold in the distributor’s containers in quantities of one (1) gallon or less shall be delivered in standard milk bottles or in single-service containers. (3) It shall be the duty of all persons to whom milk or milk products are delivered to thoroughly clean the containers in which the milk or milk products are delivered before returning those containers. (4) The delivery of milk or milk products to, and the collection of milk or milk product containers from, residences in which cases of communicable disease transmissible through milk supplies exist shall be subject to the special requirements of the state authority. AUTHORITY: section 196.939, RSMo 2000.* Original rule filed June 20, 1973, effective June 30, 1973. Amended: Filed July 24, 2012, effective Jan. 30, 2013. *Original authority: 196.939, RSMo 1972, amended 1993, 1994, 1995.